Impact of Jahnigen / GEMSSTAR Scholarships on Careers of Recipients in Emergency Medicine and on Development of Geriatric Emergency Medicine

摘要

BackgroundThe Jahnigen Career Development Awards program was launched in 2002 with private funding and transformed into the Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) program in 2011 through support from the National Institute on Aging and medical specialty professional societies. The Jahnigen / GEMSSTAR program has provided grants to early career physician-scientists from 10 surgical and related medical specialties to initiate and sustain research careers in the geriatric aspect of their discipline. From 2002-2016, there were 20 Jahnigen / GEMSSTAR recipients in Emergency Medicine (EM). The goal of this investigation is to examine the impact of Jahnigen / GEMSSTAR awards on careers of EM recipients and on development of academic Geriatric EM.